The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate .Chapter 72: is it too late? .Regina’s lips part in wordless shock.Damien shrugs. “Perhaps it is foolishness,” considering just how much a man like crown Prince Damien might have to lose. “But what is love, if not tempered with some uncertainty? It is not trust, otherwise.”For Damien - who had been Gifted with the greatest telepathic abilities recorded in history, whose prodigious talents had allowed him to expertly and effortlessly assess the threat behind every smile and every kind word - his brand of love, is trust.The blind, admittedly potentially catastrophic, kind of trust, that comes with believing in a person without ascertaining their thoughts even when he can.For Damien, this has been his greatest declaration of love possible.Regina stares, lost and uncomprehending. “But that- I...I never knew.”Damien’s smile shines like diamonds, the kind of happiness that only Jana has ever been able to place on his mild expressions. “So,” he laughs.

The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate .Chapter 74: discourtesy.“It really is very discourteous to be so late, you know,” Regina sniffs, tears steadily trickling down her cheeks.“My most heartfelt apologies,” Mattel says, and she snorts.“And what were you going to do, if you hadn’t made it in time?” Regina digs her chin into Mattel’s shoulder like a particularly petulant huff. “If you had let me go, and I had made it all the way back to the Heartlands, with an entire kingdom in between us; if you had let me go, and I had left?” Mattel’s smile is somehow both tranquil and calamitous at the same time; like the gaze of a man who, incomprehensibly, is calmly prepared to tear entire kingdoms asunder in his path. It’s a magnitude of affection Regina has never been privy to, before, and one she doesn’t quite understand, nor know how to receive.“Something as trivial as time and space, are not sufficient deterrents,” Mattel murmurs, and Regina feels her eyes prickle once more. “I would have co

The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate .Chapter 76: a continued allegiance .“Mattel” Damian interrupts, expression mild and voice calm. “On behalf of my wife, Jana, I sincerely apologize for our rudeness.”Regina looks down at the table as Jana glances stubbornly away. Damian smiles at Mattel. “If you wouldn’t mind giving us and Regina a moment to convene?”Both Damian and Jana watch as Mattel looks to Regina with an assessing gaze, as if searching for his response there, in Regina’s expression. And then Regina looks up at him with a tiny, half-anxious smile, but nods.But Mattel makes no move to leave, not yet.“I’d like to speak to them, please,” Regina adds, and it’s only then that Mattel rises from his seat. He doesn’t leave without briefly grazing Regina’s cheek with the back of his hand, a gesture that the younger girl immediately leans into for that scant second.Mattel turns to glance just once, at Jana, and the look in his eyes - like a warning, somehow, as if Jana needed any war

The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate .Chapter 78: fight of feelings .By morning’s time, the official declaration has been spread: that King Mattel and his newly found mate, Regina are to be aligned in a marriage with Regina becoming the new Luna and Queen of the Western kingdom. All such official news and ceremony had originally been postponed in Regina’s runaway , until the she could arrive; said arrival, in turn, had been delayed because Mattel had wasted time to find her and then finally she was brought back. Which led to princess Jana and Prince Damian coming too.But now that Regina have arrived, and she has decided to stay, it is, apparently, enough for King Mattel to move forward with all the grand fanfare that would ordinarily accompany such a union. Given that Jana and Damian’s military - and, therefore, political - strength is nearly peerless in all the land, King Mattel is only thrilled to continue the original plans. And then Princess Jana and Prince Damian had only permit

The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate .Chapter 80: propriety be damned.Mattel is in the middle of conversing with a nobleman from one of his kingdom’s prominent families, when abruptly, the man pauses in his tale. He turns, and is---- spellbound.Regina stands before him, a figure sublime in the pale blue fabric and golden threads she wears, cheeks rosy as she bites her lower lip with a bashfulness that makes something in Mattel’s chest heave. Under the glittering, dazzling lights of the crystal chandeliers, surrounded by a room full of extravagant nobles dressed in silks and laden with enough diamonds to fund several wars, Regina - who wears no jewels but for the small, barely visible diamonds on her ears - somehow shines brighter than any gem or star Mattel has ever seen. Mattel’s eyes are unable to tear away from the vision that Regina is, like a midsummer’s dream come to life by some hazy miracle.Regina shifts, hand nervously tracing the embroidery along her side. She seems entir